Urgent

Prisoners at Lieber Correctional Institution in South Carolina are demanding recognition of their human rights by the South Carolina Department of Corrections and warden Randall Williams. Prisoners are also demanding an end to the horrific conditions they are forced to exist under at Lieber, which are exascerbating already rising tensions to a tipping point and people are dying.

Ongoing

Please make these calls and emails to tell Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) that you demand Melvin Perez be returned to general population and the phony investigation against him be dropped. Names collected in this petition will also be send to FDOC administration

Call in to demand an end to repression against organizing prisoners. North Carolina DPS is keeping three prisoners in segregation in response to the strike activity at Hyde correctional facility that occurred on August 20. The three prisoners are also facing trumped up "active rioter" infractions.

We demand that repression against these prisoners stop.Call in and tell DPS director Kennith Lassiter to move these men out of segregation and remove the infraction charges against them.

Because prisons receive more funding if every bed has a person in it, people are put in segregation when a bed comes open, not necessarily because they have actually committed an infraction. People are constantly rotated in and out of segregation for "investigation" which can last up to 6 months. Around 35 prisoners in Housing Unit 2, the administrative segregation unit at Missouri's South Central Correctional Center, have been staging a sit in by requesting protective custody.

On May 12th, prison rebels at Crossroads Correctional Center in Missouri staged a sit in. Prison officials refused their demands and the action escalated. During the uprising, the property room was destroyed. Prisoners are asking the administration to replace the lost and damaged property.

With resistance often comes repression, and North Carolina Department of Public Services is no different. While joining a national chorus of prison bureaucrats denying prisoner protest or strikes to the media, NC DPS is privately admitting in their infraction forms that prisoners are being thrown into segregation for strike organizing.

Resistance flares up in the IDOC once again. We've received word that a hunger strike has begun at Westville Correctional Facility in Westville, Indiana.

The demands of these inmates are much the same as the recently concluded and severely repressed hunger strike at Wabash Valley: insufficient and inedible meals, freezing cold temperatures, lack of access to commissary, etc.

Details of this strike are still coming in but all accounts are that it is ongoing meaning the inmates need immediate and consistent outside support.

Suspended

Seven people incarcerated in Toledo Correctional Institution went on strike Saturday, November 2nd). They refused to be moved into the yard for recreation time until a SWAT or SRT team moved them, and are going on hunger strike and refusing food.

Prisoners held within the Hyde Correctional Institution, a facility in Fairfield, NC, were threatened with retaliation for their active support and organizing in solidarity with the national #PrisonStrike. Two prisoners in particular - Todd J Martin, and Jace Buras - are being designated by prison faculty as strike organizers. They're facing threats of administrative repression, as are any other fellow prisoners connected to the national strike.

On August 21, over 200 people detained at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington began a hunger strike and work stoppage. Call the immigration prison and tell them to honor the hunger strikers demands.

On August 21st, our friend Heriberto Garcia (nicknamed Sharky, CDC#G-36724) began a hunger strike in solidarity with prisoners taking actionelsewhere. We are not aware of his current circumstances and all visitingto his facility at New Folsom has been cancelled for two weekends in a row.

Despite the fact that prisoners at Burnside Jail in Nova Scotia, Canada have been on strike since August 19th, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice has denied any protest on the inside, and Justice Minister Mark Furey has refused to comment publicly since the strike began. Please call the office of Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey in solidarity with prisoners at Burnside. The prisoners are making important, reasonable demands for their health, rehabilitation, and humane treatment.

David Easley, James Ward, and Matt Hinkston went on hunger strike on Friday, September 14. They are demanding an end to retaliation for involvement in the national strike, and protesting the long-term solitary confinement of inmates with mental health issues, and violence by guards. Prison officials are trying to put them in solitary and to put David in a sound-isolation chamber (a "bubble") in retaliation for this, and on Friday, September 14, guards in the Toledo Correctional Institution maced them for being on hunger strike and having a sit-in.

Completed

A call-in campaign is happening in support of the 2018 Nationwide #PrisonStrike starting Tuesday, August 21st. You can use the following script to help you in your call. The most important thing is to make the call. This will put officials on alert that we are watching. Encourage your friends and family to join as well, then hold each other accountable! Without our support on the outside prisoner resistance dies on the inside.

Several inmates in the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility went on hunger strike in protest of their already starvation-level meal portions and are now being punished for it.

Comrade Alyssa is an incarcerated Black transgender woman housed in a state men’s prison in Maryland. This summer, she had her name legally changed. However, in a letter received on August 24, 2018, comrade Alyssa reported that a caseworker refused to follow policy to acknowledge her legal name change and requested calls to be made on her behalf.

Please call North Branch Correctional Institution this Friday, September 14 between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. eastern at 301-729-7400.